Jesse Manser

“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock by the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell. ”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible